1000-mile trek by Canadian students reaches half way mark
Three Canadian college students, who started a 1000-mile trek from Chicago to Washington D.C. on the 26th of June to raise awareness of the general American population to the several thousand Tamil civilians killed by the Sri Lanka military during the first two weeks of May, and the 300,000 Tamil civilians held in Sri Lanka military supervised internment camps, have now nearly reached the half-way mark.
Black July Remembrance – London
1983 – over 3000 Tamils are murdered and 150,000 made homeless in Sri Lankan State sponsored anti-Tamil riots…26 years on, the Genocide continues…
Black July Remembrance – London Sunday, 26 July 2009 1pm @ Trafalgar Square
Nearest Stations: Charing Cross and Embankment
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The night of May 31, 1981 Jaffna library burned
Remembering the sad saga of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a cultural genocide of Tamils, the burning down of the Jaffna library, one of the biggest and finest in Asia, on the night of May 31, 1981? On that fateful night Sri Lankan paramilitary forces set ablaze this grand library as part of the pogrom against Tamils of Jaffna. Some 97,000 volumes of books, excluding rare and important Ola manuscripts, went up in flames.
UN chief knew Tamil civilian toll had reached 20,000; The Times says it can reveal
The United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes disputed a report appeared in ‘The Times’ newspaper of London that cited a “UN source” to support an estimate that at least 20,000 people were killed during the months-long final siege.
“That figure has no status as far as we’re concerned,” Holmes said. “It may be right, it may be wrong, it may be far too high, it may even be too low. But we honestly don’t know, he said.
